deduce

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

transitive v. To reach (a conclusion) by reasoning.

transitive v. To infer from a general principle; reason deductively: deduced from the laws of physics that the new airplane would fly.

transitive v. To trace the origin or derivation of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.

v. To take away; to deduct; to subtract.

v. To lead forth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

transitive v. To lead forth.

transitive v. To take away; to deduct; to subtract.

transitive v. To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To lead forth or away; conduct.

To trace the course of; describe from first to last.

To draw; derive; trace.

To derive or conclude as a result of a known principle; draw as a necessary conclusion; infer from what is known or believed. See deduction, and deductive reasoning, under deductive.

As on can deduce from the quote from Wilson above, the Germans may have copied their racism from Anglo-phone countries, but Anglophone and French countries also had strong humanistic and egalitarian traditions that they did not copy.

That man has a duty to so domesticate his passions to serve his reason we can deduce from the raw fact that the appetites are a multitude of contradictory desires, as easily able to be inconsistent with surrounding facts of reality as consistent.

The physicist Brian Pippard, who held Maxwellâs old chairâ ¦ at the University of Cambridge, has put it thus: âWhat is surely impossible is that a theoretical physicist, given unlimited computing power, should deduce from the law of physics that a certain complex structure is aware of its own existence. ââ (p44)